One San Diego firefighter was paid $210,500 in overtime alone in 2014, according to newly released figures about local government payrolls. That‘s more than the annual salary of the FBI director, at $178,700, and the U.S. Attorney General, at $199,000. Kyle Kutzke, 34, who’s listed as a firefighter 2 for San Diego, was paid that amount on top of $26,700 in base pay, according to data the city comptroller submitted to the open government group Transparent California and the State Controller’s Office.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the san diego union-tribune

PHOTO - A firefighter was reprimanded and two superiors reassigned after a depiction of a Jacksonville firefighter as a terrorist was posted on a fire station computer and left there for a week. The image, though described as a joke between two firefighters, was deemed offensive and insensitive and should never have been posted, let alone left for a week in December, said Fire Chief Kurtis Wilson.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the Florida times-union

A Detroit firefighter is in stable but serious condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital after he was overcome by smoke while responding to a commercial building fire on the west side Saturday night. Firefighters were called to the three-alarm fire at the building on Michigan Avenue and Martin Street just before 7:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXYZ-TV ABC Detroit

A municipal court judge ordered a Margate firefighter to surrender his public employment following his conviction last month for shoplifting $7.98 in items, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday. The prosecutor's office handled the conviction of Ashton Funk, 34, and was also pushing for the forfeiture of his job as a firefighter and as a lifeguard, also for the city of Margate.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com

After more than 16 years with Clark County Fire District 6, Kristan Maurer has become the first woman to serve as one of the agency’s assistant chiefs. She was still wrapping her mind around the promotion Wednesday afternoon, a couple of hours after signing the papers. “I feel pretty dang excited,” she said.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: columbian